Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
CoLLYER. Aug 10, 1887.

Hot breeZes.
Cutting fodder.
A peanut patch.
It was muddy awhile.
Almost depopulation.
The winter outlook is dark.
Potatoes are taking second growth.
That heavy due of Saturday morning
heightened the blessings of Saturday
nights rain.
A. J. johnson has long patch of pea
nuts, doing nicely in spite of winds and
aridity.
Big creek and the Coyote are dry this
season in places where they have not been
for many years.
The baseball dance last Friday night
was not financial success. The interest
in dancing seems to be waning.
A windmill whirls at E. 81. Philippi's
and an Adams will soon pump water for
Phillips & Smiths livery stable.
81. F. Knight left last Thursday for
Kansas City, where he expects to be
kept proftably busy showing the plane
and saw.
Messrs. Swiggett and Bruner had a
threshing machine at their home on
Thursday. A stack of oats needed at
tention.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Birkeland left for
Chicago last Friday morning, by taking
the fast train at Wa-Keeney. The SYM
pathy of their many friends goes with
| them.
James OToole was overcome by the
heat on Monday, and was obliged to stop
his work on the section. This is the first
case reported of anything resembling sun
stroke in this locality.
Miss K. Mcdonald and her niece Miss
Lula LeBron went west on to-day's pas
senger to pay lengthy visit to Mrs. L..
A. Fisher at Oakley, Kas. The Carvings
wish them a pleasant vacation.
Mrs. Charles Adams and Miss s.
Adams were in town yesterday attending
| to business and taking long breaths of
our cool air before driving back to the
warm regions of the Smoky.
Mrs. VIM. Morris is expecting visit
from her father next month. He resides
near Lexington, KY, and if satisfied he
can make cattle raising profitable in this
locality, will change his residence to this
or an adjoining county.
Last Sabbath afternoon a branch OF
the Collyer Congregational church was
established at the Cass school house, on
the Saline. Nine members were received
A communion service was conducted by
Rev. J. Q. A. Weller.
How the Collyer boys did hurrah when
they came off victors at the match game
Of ball last Saturday withsth the Banner
club. A purse of ten dollars, as also the
honors was theirs. Score, % to q, in
favor of the Collyer club.
There seem to be wind-heating fur
naces up north like those of the south.
If the superlative degree of warm cannot
properly be applied to few of the
breezes from the northwest this after
noon, may the wind for which it would be
appropriate not be forthcoming.
MARR1ED.-At the home of the bride,
northwest of Collyer, the evening of Aug
s, 1887, Miss Nina E. York and Walter
Elliott, of Russell Springs, Kan, Rev.
Mahaffe. of Wa-Keeney, officiating. The
bride and groom took the evening train
for their future home at Russell Springs
The passenger train last Wednesday
night was delayed here an hour before
the side-track could be cleared to permit
it to pass around the wrecked freight.
It took two and half days work to lift
the damaged cars and get them ready to
take to the repair shops. Seven were
broken badly.
The storm which so nearly RACED the
entire town of Millbrook last Thursday
night visited this place also, but without
doing damage except to human nerves.
Those suffered in many cases. By the
northwest wind was driven heavy rain,
which, aided by gentle shower during
the night. left its impression on muddy
fields most agreeable to gaze upon.
A. J. johnson and John W. Burns left
yesterday for Ogallah, where Mr.. John
sons trade will be displayed on the new
forestry sign-and no doubt it will be a
beauty and therefore ssioy" to Com.
Robb. Mr.. Burns will lay the foundation
for the commissioners residence, giving
the state the benefit of the same expert
ence it had from him on the state house
at Topeka.
Too late for last weeks letter came the
announcement that the carpenters work
on the new church was about done.
Since then they have finished, and the
building is now under charge Of the plas-
terers. It will probably be dedicated
about Sept. 18, but the time has not yet
been decided upon, The exterior OF the
building is quite attractive, and its loca-
ton is such that is will draw attention if |
not worshippers.
care you going? When?" have often
been heard the past week, and the former
is usually answered in the affirmative.
The second is frequently puzzler. The
loss of crops makes, in many cases, the
going elsewhere to earn ivlihood COM
pulsory. Among those who signify their
intention to remove are i. f. Hollinoton,